Assessing al Qaeda

Celebrating the year anniversary of bin Laden’s demise, I wrote for the Atlantic about the weird inflated hyperbole that’s arisen about al Qaeda.

This week marks one year since Osama bin Laden’s death. We’re hearing a lot about what the anniversary means for the larger struggle against Islamist violence around the world. Most assessments of the “War on Terror” fall into one of two categories: al-Qaeda is stronger than ever or al-Qaeda is dead or dying. Whatever you think about al-Qaeda specifically, the global movement of violent Islamism is more complicated.

Ledt’s face it, the Islamic terrorists were created by the US to fight Soviet in 1980′s.

کمانگیرMay 6, 2012 at 6:23 am

For Islamic terrorism, who in all its forms, from the Philippines to Morocco, to be so popular and successful, is to attribute too much achievement to the knuckleheads at CIA and a little racist/culturalist/somethingist as well.